Somebody’s Gotta Do It … The Miss Universe 2009 pageant has just wrapped up (not without controversy) at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Another amazing year where I was fortunate to spend a lot of time meeting some wonderful people and rub shoulders with the gorgeous, the glamorous, the
I’m happy to announce the birth of my newly sprouted home video studio here in Bangkok. To take it for a test ride, I have just posted a 2 episode series covering the core Thai vowels. Video Clips About 10 years ago, as part of my Cracking Thai Fundamentals
Dear gods of the cyberverse, please direct this blog-entry through the right routers,feed aggregators, RSS readers … anything it takes so that those great apple developers in the sky can start to get a taste of the multilingual HUMAN world outside of that apparently monoglot paradise of Cupertino. I’ve
Find Your Way Around Indic Based Writing Systems (Devanagari, Tamil, Panjabi (Gurmukhi), Burmese, Bahasa Bali (Balinese), Bahasa Jawa (Javanese), Thai and Khmer (Cambodian) Without a GPS Theme and Variation The reason I love playing and listening to jazz so much is because you’re able to get into the soul
It’s a fantastic day in Siam today … why? I’m not quite sure yet, but I’m really enjoying it so far for some reason!! Before you read any further, check out my latest clip that I’ve just thrown together. It will form the base of this blog
I just received a letter from another Polyglot that I had come into contact by a fantastic language learning site out there – how-to-learn-any-language.com . After asking his permission, I’ve pasted the letter and my response here in the hope that it might be of assistance to other frustrated language
Episode 1 Part 1 Part 2 About a week ago, I was fortunate to have been invited to attend a Second Language Acquisition seminar by Language Acquisition guru Dr. Stephen Krashen (http://www.sdkrashen.com) , hosted by the Concordian International School here in Bangkok.Stephen was a real inspiration and
I received an email in my Youtube box this morning that touched on a topic that I had always meant to post about. I figured this is a better time than ever to write about it. Here’s the letter: ***Perfect Pitch *** Hey Stuart, I want to learn a language,
GTZ-SUTP, partner of the Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) project, successfully concluded its initial course of the “Train-the-Trainer” program which was an initiative of the the SUMA project in partnership with CAI-Asia and other organizations. The participants, “Future Trainers”, were preselected professionals on urban transport from India and China.
## 粵 ## 日 漢 ## 한 ## ? ## 傣 ## ไทย ## 佬 ## Tiếng Việt ## Who Should Read This * Anyone interested in languages J * Chinese speakers of one Chinese Language (方言) that would like to learn another - (E.g. Cantonese speaker wants to learn Mandarin, Mandarin Speaker wants to learn Cantonese, Hokkien Speaker wants to
Over the past 3 months, I think I’ve been at home in Bangkok for a total of about 6days. The rest of the time I’ve been travelling to some of the most fascinating places on the planet plying mytrade – i.e. packaging language, linguistics, facilitation, entertainment and culture
I’ve just received permission from the author to publish his response to my previous post. Note that the response came several months after the original response to his letter was sent. I hope it’s helpful to people studying Arabic out there. After reading it, I ran to my